Daily Archives: May 4, 2019

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

If we are honest, most of us would say that we lack confidence in some areas of our lives. Sometimes we don’t feel that we are good enough to go after the job position or career that we would like. Maybe we feel that we don’t have the smarts or the ability to do so. We compare ourselves to others who seem to be much better than we are at relating to people and seem to have it together academically. Some of us may prefer to stay at home in our cocoon rather than go out and face people and have to speak with them.

Some of us dread speaking to others or socializing with them because we are afraid of what people will think of us. There are those of us who are so terrified of speaking with someone of the opposite sex for fear of looking like a fool and being rejected. Lack of confidence can hold us a prisoner of our own mind and prevent us from being all that we can be and doing all the things we would like to do.

Here are some quotes on the subject of confidence. I hope this will inspire you:

(1) “Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it”. – Bruce Lee

(2) You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one”. – Dale Carnegie

(3) “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”– Vincent Van Gogh

(4) “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. – Eleanor Roosevelt

(6) “The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence”. – Blake Lively

(7) “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will”.- Suzy Kassem

(8) “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them”. – Michael Jordan

(9) “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable”. – Wendy Wasserstein

(10) “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained”. – Marie Curie

(11) “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability”. – Zig Ziglar

(12) “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

(14) “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours”. – Henry David Thoreau

(15) “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong”. – Peter T. Mcintyre

(16) “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do”. – Eleanor Roosevelt

(17) “Don’t rush. Just do your thing”. – Maxime Lagacé

(18) “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually, the confidence will follow. – Carrie Fisher

(19) “Start with the end in mind”. – Stephen Covey

(20) “Focus on your greater goal, your destiny”. – Robert Greene

(21) “If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy”. – Dale Carnegie

(22) “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things”. – Joe Namath

(23) “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful”. – Mark Victor Hansen

(24) “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do”. – Eleanor Roosevelt

(25) “Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man – there’s your diamond in the rough”. Larry David

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Diane Lynne enjoys travel, self-improvement, pursuing a debt-free/financially free life. She also loves hanging out with family, friends and being with her dog Skye. Diana is a Quebec City girl. who loves living life. You can connect with her at livingandstuff.ca